What's On Scotland 6-13 Apr: Counterflows Festival

After celebrating their half-decade anniversary last year, 'non-core' music festival Counterflows returns this week between 6-9 Apr, limbering up to let Scotland know what's what in underground music.

Born 'out of the likes of so-called DIY scenes, the internet or geographically remote communities', the festival is packed to the rafters with intriguing acts in carefully chosen venues, so close your eyes, draw a circle round any of the events and you're bound to pick something fresh AF. Day passes and weekend passes are sold out (which, really, is testament to how frickin' cool the weekend is going to be be), but individual tickets are still available for most events. Read the programme here.

The Pictish Trail / Happy Meals / Blanck Mass DJ set
Caves, Edinburgh. 13 Apr, 8pm
The Pictish Trail's most recent album Future Echoes packages up all kinds of wholesome, folky feelings into nonchalant electro-pop parcels.; in short, an oxygenating record that'll sound even better live. Happy Meals are set to support, bringing their ingenious synth-soaked gyrations, and the odd onstage incense stick too, we imagine. (Pictish Trail also play Clark's Dundee on 12 Apr) Image: Beth Chalmers

Headway with Jeremy Underground
The Reading Rooms, Dundee, 7 Apr, 10.30pm
DJ Jeremy Fichon, aka Jeremy Underground, is a celebrated crate-digger and champion of the good ol' days of house music. After ripping it up with a recent Sub Club show, the French selector now makes his Dundee debut with support from Andy Barton, Graeme Binnie and Neil Clark. Image: Andrew Denholm

A Night Full of Words
Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh. 6 Apr, 6pm
Get your bookwormy fix at this evening of literature and feminism. Along with Sarya Wu and Maddie Haynes, the line-up includes Christina Neuwirth and Sim Bajwa, contributors to 404ink's extraordinarily successful (and Margaret Atwood-approved) feminist anthology Nasty Women. All proceeds will be donated to the venue and Women's Aid, making for a convincing argument to head down.

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Scottish Ballet's Digital Season
Tramway, Glasgow and online, until 29 April
The genre of ballet is updated significantly this April with Scottish Ballet's debut Digital Season, in which they'll host a series of online and digital events, comprising short films, interactive media, company rehearsal live streams and a pop-up digital installation at Tramway. Image: Christina Riley

Scottish Vegan Festival
The Corn Exchange, Edinburgh. 9 Apr, 10.30am-5pm
Vegans and veg-curious people, listen up: after its inaugural effort in 2016, the Scottish Vegan Festival is back for another microcosm of meat-free marvels. There'll be stalls, music, talks, hot and cold fare and bar full of boozy treats – sounds pretty pleasant, if you ask us.

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FTH Theatre, Falkirk, 4-7 July (16+)
This punchy production recaptures the passion and controversy of the famous novel and globally successful film, and repackages it into an immersive production – you are literally part of the show. This is a no-holds-barred immersive, in-yer-face theatre production: this is your ticket to a ride you won’t soon forget. Choose life. WARNING: Contains nudity, strong language, sex, violence, drug/needle use, and lots of mess. May induce claustrophobia.

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Theatre picks from Edinburgh Science Festival

Faslane
10-11 Apr, Summerhall

Jenna Watt's interrogation of nuclear warfare, which presents the argument in a manner that's fascinating whether you're well-read on the sitch or looking to learn. Image: Mihaela Bodlovic

Girl in the Machine
Until 22 Apr (not Sun or Mon), Traverse

Who says you can't take your dystopias without a dash of passion? Well, not Trav Associate Artist Stef Smith, writer of this dramatic investigation into how tech tears lives apart.

Isaac's Eye
7-15 Apr (not Mon 10), Bedlam

Get to know Isaac Newton as director Carmen Marcon plunges audiences into the plague-riddled world the ambitious scientist inhabited in a production of Lucas Hnath's Isaac's Eye.

A Number
6-15 Apr, The Royal Lyceum
Science and drama collide in Caryl Churchill's A Number, which tells the tale of a man who finds one of ‘a number’ of clones resulting from a rogue experiment. Image: Aly Wight

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WIN tickets to The Skinny's Eclectica Experiment
at The Caves, Edinburgh, 20 Apr, 8pm

We're throwing a culture-soaked cocktail party and you're invited. For the chance to win two tickets, email zap@theskinny.co.uk with your full name by 10am Fri 7 Apr. No fear if you don't win – tickets are only £10 and include five whisky cocktails, food and a ridiculously wicked line-up. Buy tickets here.